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Al Gore Is Lying Low -- for Good Reason
AMERICAN THINKER ^ | February 24, 2010 | Rex McBride

Posted on 02/23/2010 11:11:58 PM PST by onyx

February 24, 2010

Al Gore Is Lying Low -- for Good Reason

By Rex McBride

Maybe Al Gore's been advised by legal counsel to lie low. He may be the leader of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) movement, but he's not defending it in public, not even when it's falling apart and his new fortune is based upon it.

Mr. Gore and his financial backers earned millions of dollars in start-up "green" companies and carbon trading schemes. If the scam worked, he could've become the first "carbon billionaire."

"What goes up can fall down" applies to ill-gotten gains in the stock market or "carbon trading" schemes. In such schemes, it's foreseeable that trusting investors will (a) not only get hurt when the scam collapses, but they'll also (b) pursue legal remedies and sue him for fraud.

Mr. Gore's financial gains were based on the contradictory and error-plagued assertion that man's release of the trace gas CO2 will fry the planet.

Once it becomes clear to everyone that the AGW theory is based on cleverly manipulated data twisted by rigged computer models controlled by several dozen IPCC politicians/scientists, we can expect that investors who lose millions by investing in these companies will eventually haul Mr. Gore and the insider IPCC scientists into court.

Over the years, American tax dollars were poured down the fantasyland AGW "rat hole." Sooner or later, Al Gore needs to answer some hard questions. Unfortunately, we'll have to wait for lawsuits from private investors. Today, legal counsel will advise him to remain silent.

It's impossible to predict how many lawsuits, or what kind, might arise once everyone realizes that the AGW scam dwarfs Bernie Madoff's $50-billion Ponzi operation. New studies appear almost daily that further undercut AGW theory. The biggest daily newspaper in the Netherlands vindicated that country's leading AGW critic in the article "Henk Tennekes -- He was right after all."

Dr. Tennekes was fired in the 1990s from a prominent research position and blacklisted for debunking AGW theory. He upset the same IPCC scientists who control the leading "peer review" climate research journals and who blocked the publication of all contrary research in those journals for decades.

As investors learn the extent of the scam, Mr. Gore's start-up "green" companies will lose considerable value, like flaky dot-com companies lacking a real product. Investors in these "green" companies -- who reasonably relied upon Gore's alarming claims -- may pursue several possible remedies:

- derivative shareholder lawsuits, disgorging from Mr. Gore and other senior officers in these companies any illicit gains from any insider trading that could be proven; and/or

- lawsuits against brokers who did not perform the SEC's necessary "due diligence" research before peddling those shares; and/or

- civil RICO lawsuits against Mr. Gore and any IPCC scientists who participated in blocking the publication of contrary research, cooking the data, all of whose annual income skyrocketed from the public hysteria.

On the state level, it's impossible to predict if one or more state attorney generals will look back on the tobacco industry cases and decide, representing the taxpayers of his or her state, to file criminal and/or civil RICO actions against Gore and the enriched IPCC scientists.

(On the federal level, while President Obama is in office, the Justice Department will not file RICO or SEC actions against their buddy Al Gore. Remember, the president originally hoped that Boxer-Kerry cap-and-trade would generate over $600 billion in new corporate taxes -- "emergency" measures justified by fantasy AGW theory.

Remember the joke about the government taxing air? In the Twilight Zone of Boxer-Kerry, say hello to cap-and-trade.)

If Mr. Gore's "green" companies do crash and significantly injure private investors, attorneys in a civil lawsuit could compel Gore to answer questions like:

(1) When you claimed that "the science is settled," did you mean that it's "settled" that you and the IPCC scientists could make quick millions by manipulating the data and fomenting public hysteria?

(2) What does "peer review" mean if none of the IPCC scientists who controlled the academic journals protested that there was no original data to support your frightening claim of accelerated temperature increases after 1995?

(3) If the very scientists that the public trusted to act as the "check and balance" against careless research -- or worse yet, to protect against research fraud -- did not catch a "tiny" problem like not having original supporting data after 1995, does "peer review" mean that IPCC's scientists would secretly work in concert to cover each other's asses and keep the grants coming?

Such questions need answers.

In "The Dog Ate Global Warming", an article at the Cato Institute, Patrick J. Michaels noted that "[i]f there are no data, there's no science. U.S. taxpayers deserve to know the answer."

Obviously, Al Gore cannot be compelled to answer questions in a criminal court under the 5th Amendment. However, his admissible bank and stock portfolio records would prove his skyrocketing wealth, making him a "deep pocket."

Since 1970, the scope of RICO cases has grown far beyond prosecuting mafia operations. The law firm Nixon Peabody explained:

RICO was written in broad terms. To state a claim, a plaintiff must allege four elements: (1) conduct (2) of an enterprise (3) through a pattern (4) of racketeering activity... Each element of a RICO claim requires additional analysis: an "enterprise" is marked by association and control; a "pattern" requires a showing of "continuity" -- continuous and related behavior that amounts to, or poses a threat of, continued criminal violations; and "racketeering activity" involves the violation of designated federal laws ...

RICO lawsuits are now won in a wide variety of civil disputes -- e.g., insurance companies working in concert to delay/shortchange payments owed to dentists. 

Other RICO cases resulted in court judgments against the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club, Catholic sex crimes, and Major League Baseball.

It violates federal law to fake taxpayer-funded research and then manipulate or destroy data to enrich oneself. If an insider group secretly conspires to do so, it looks and smells like RICO.

If more AGW-destroying news rolls in, and if Gore's "green" companies lose significant value, then shareholder derivative lawsuits and/or state RICO lawsuits will follow -- more so as the losses grow.

Mr. Gore is in hiding today -- no longer the "courageous" leader of the AGW movement. Apparently, Planet Earth is "no longer in grave danger" or "needing to be saved," but Gore could lose all of his ill-gotten assets.

If the victim list grows and criminal intent is proven, Mr. Gore could do serious time. After a much smaller scam, Bernie Madoff got 150 years.

What if you want answers about the potential misuse of tax dollars that enriched AGW insiders but didn't invest in one of Al Gore's fantasies?

Call Congress and demand that the GAO audit all climate change grants. GAO has the professional audit expertise to follow the money, gather objective facts, and report on any significant fraud or abuse.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
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To: Allegra; All
I really don't know how people like Al Gore sleep at night.

Speaking of that..........does anyone know where Tipper is now? Haven't seen her in years. Is she institutionalized?

(Serious question, btw)

101 posted on 02/24/2010 6:57:34 AM PST by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: Elsie; reaganaut; colorcountry; greyfoxx39

Maybe we should share this new religion with Master Glenn Boy Beck who was spouting off yesterday about “Global Warming is True”.

Bear your testimonkey Glenn Boy!


102 posted on 02/24/2010 6:58:38 AM PST by Utah Binger (Mount Carmel Utah, Twelve Miles East of Zion National Park)
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To: ohioWfan

Thanks so much for your post!!

103 posted on 02/24/2010 6:58:47 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: onyx

104 posted on 02/24/2010 6:59:31 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (The liberals are asking us to give Obama more time. Is 25 to life enough?)
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
But maybe it will be class action lawsuits. We ought to all join such an effort and follow the instructions in this post.

Praise God’s Holy Name! The hucksters, the liars, the wicked are being exposed!

We will be thrilled to join a class action suit!

And thanks for the reminder that this is all GOD's working to bring evil men to justice.

105 posted on 02/24/2010 7:01:06 AM PST by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: musicman

You are most welcome, musicman. :)


106 posted on 02/24/2010 7:04:17 AM PST by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: Always Independent

Is there a timeline of Gore’s public carbon demonization and dealings? I have wondered if he jumped on it after Ken Lay died, figuring 1) Lay was forever branded as a right-winger just because he was a rich Texan and 2) he was no longer around to implicate Al.(Not to exonerate Lay for the Enron mess)

How long before the world actually admits that the entire carbon trading scheme was hatched in the Clinton WH? Probably right around the time that the former backers/investors/losers decide there is real money in prosecuting the warmists, starting with Blood, Gore and G.I.M.


107 posted on 02/24/2010 7:18:39 AM PST by reformedliberal
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To: Utah Binger

108 posted on 02/24/2010 7:25:23 AM PST by Utah Binger (Mount Carmel Utah, Twelve Miles East of Zion National Park)
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To: onyx; All

OUTSTANDING article by Rex McBride! Thanks for posting. OUTSTANDING thread! Thanks to all posters/linkers/researchers/educators.

The POS Al “No Controlling Legal Authority” “HE PLAYED ON OUR FEARS” Gore should be stripped of everything and beaten like a pinata for the children he deceived.


109 posted on 02/24/2010 7:27:35 AM PST by PGalt
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To: onyx
Besides the AGW scam, I also wonder if the junk science about global cooling, death by ozone, population explosion to kill a billion or more, alcar scare (almost destroyed the apple industry) made money for the "scientists" and could be subject to their own class action lawsuits.

Oops, forgot H1N1 pandemic that I've not known one person to contract which turned out to be no worse than the average flu, although it's vaccine is still being regularly promoted on TV ads.

All nuclear power could cause the China syndrome, Chernobyl notwithstanding (think Russian crap). 3 mile island was nothing.

Oh, and that AIDS would spread throughout the straight community and kill millions upon millions in the USA. Supplying a gazillion condoms to third world cesspools was the answer against aids AND the population explosion. BTW, Haiti has warehouses full of condoms that are taking up space for much needed subsistence supplies. Just read that the other day.

Feel free to add to other "political scientific" and "doomsayers'"predictions that never came true.

110 posted on 02/24/2010 7:48:31 AM PST by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: A Navy Vet
Here's some more:
1. Scientists/scholars thought the world was flat;
2. Same thought the Sun revolved around the Earth.
3. Same pooh poohed many inventions and practical theoretical applications that turned out to be feasible.

The list goes on and on how so-called esteemed scientists and scholars have been so wrong.

111 posted on 02/24/2010 8:02:19 AM PST by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: Halgr

“...May Al Gore experience heat.....

....the flames of hell...”

While this fraud doesn’t rate a trip to the hotter regions, I do think that a very long stretch in a federal prison is in order. He will be found out to BE A FRAUD. The lawsuits that will flood in will break his once powerful empire. WE will have the last laugh.


112 posted on 02/24/2010 8:11:23 AM PST by NCC-1701 (ZEROs FAVORITE SONG -- I, ME, MINE -- BY THE BEATLES)
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To: onyx
Oh, no! There goes Tokyo, no, no....


113 posted on 02/24/2010 8:15:27 AM PST by SparkyBass
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To: A Navy Vet
Now we have the FDA telling us that vitamin and other supplements should not be over-counter, even though Europe and Asia has had great success for decades with many of those supplements, from controlling cholesterol to reducing depression. Think fish oil, resveratrol (wine and grape derivitives), CoQ10, and St. John's wort just to name a few.

The one I really love is when the World Health Organization came out some years ago and reversed their position about the threat of second-hand smoke, which I've always believed to be little to none existent. Then there was the time that doctors were actually promoting certain cigarettes over others (yes, direct smoking is bad for the body).

If there is the slightest amount of risk in any endeavor, than the potential rewards should be either regulated or outlawed, according to the politician/scientist/scholar position. Guess, we shouldn't have surgery, since many die of complications every year. In fact all hospitals should be shut down since so many die from staph infections.

Forgot the particle accelerator that was suppose to cause anti-matter collide with matter and cause a black whole that would destroy our planet, if not the solar system.

114 posted on 02/24/2010 8:21:00 AM PST by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: onyx

Where the heck is algore

115 posted on 02/24/2010 8:28:17 AM PST by Foolsgold (L I B Lacking in Brains)
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To: reformedliberal
"Is there a timeline of Gore’s public carbon demonization and dealings? I have wondered if he jumped on it after Ken Lay died, "

Gore was dealing with Enron about carbon trading back in the late 1990s when he was vice president. That's what got the jackass started. There are VOCs (Volatile organic compounds) tradings and Enron was interested in carbon trading as was Gore back in the 1990s.

116 posted on 02/24/2010 8:40:32 AM PST by avacado
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To: NCC-1701
"He will be found out to BE A FRAUD."

Personally, I don't believe he was a "fraud". I think he actually believed the crap from IPCC and other junk scientists and capitalized on it (therein lies the crime). If this were the 1500's after humanity found the planet is truly round, he would have refused to believe it and sided with the flat-Earthers and put his hand out for "alms for the poor" to keep the explorers from falling over the edge.

Now that AGW has been pretty much proven false, Gore still hangs on his newest book. NOW, he is a fraud.

117 posted on 02/24/2010 8:42:46 AM PST by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: onyx

Substantial jail time would be in order for Gore and his AGW idiot goons...all of them.


118 posted on 02/24/2010 8:56:55 AM PST by cranked
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To: chilltherats

It was always a win-win with them. Blame GW for ANY weather changes. If not for the email leaker, who knows what more damage the “Goracle” would be doing?

There have been many scientists debunking GW since the GW religion started. They haven’t been heard by the MSM.

The “Goracle” has no clothes.


119 posted on 02/24/2010 9:45:09 AM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
I would go back so far as to having them show the proof of the ‘hole in the ozone layer’ as well.

Yes, the LSM and the Chicken Littles seem to have gone strangely quiet about that, haven't they. I seem to remember that we were "ALL GONNA DIE!!!"

These charlatans are doing to climate science what Obama is doing to the Democrat party.

120 posted on 02/24/2010 11:01:37 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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